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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_259

Anko swiftly withdrew her kunai from the Hidden Frost shinobi. Her eyes then shifted to the three-storey U-shaped manor house owned by one of the Yu wealthy who were blown up by Takuma's clone blast. A lush perimeter of trees surrounded the building, a meticulously maintained shrub hedge maze stood in the middle, and a neatly mowed grass spread covered the entire property. However, as they advanced towards the building, all cover disappeared, heightening the risk of detection.

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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_258

It was the dead of the night and the team stalked a manor that was confirmed as the residence of the ROOT team. Getting to the mansion was a struggle even though they had travelled in the cover of night as the city was on lockdown. There were hyper-vigilant shinobi stationed at every street, corner, and building in the preparation of the upcoming invasion.

A part of the city had turned to a ghost town because the civilians had been evacuated out of their homes and forced t...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_257

It was early in the night when Kon arrived at Ebi's office when the latter was having a late dinner.

"Any clues about the intruders?" Ebi asked immediately, dismissing all formalities. With the news that an entire shinobi army was marching towards the city, he wasn't in the mood for anything but direct.

"Unfortunately no," Kon replied as he sat opposite to Ebi on a long table. One of servants proceeded to set a plate for him but Ebi stopped them. Kon pursed hi...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_256

Halfway between Camp Banana and the Spring City of Yu, a temporary base with more than a couple hundred shinobi stood as the army stopped on their journey to take a rest. It had been a day since the troops at Camp Banana had left the troops at Camp Banana for their journey toward Yu. A week ago they had received information from the precursor team that had infiltrated the city for the sake of collecting information about the enemy. The quality and quantity of intelligence procured and ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_255 [UPDATED]

EDIT: Re-worked Anko and Takuma's conversation at the end of the chapter to have it make more sense why she's so mad and flow smoother.

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Takuma opened the door to Aranai's room, waking up the prisoner laying down on the dusty floor. It had been a few days since the torture and beatings had ended, giving Aranai the time to recover; he would've recovered faster if not for his chakra locked under the prisoner seal.

"It's time," said ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_254 [Updated]

EDITS—

1) Chapter has been cleaned up to a public-release ready state.

2) Slight additions to the chapter to foreshadow Anko's displeasure with what Takuma had done.

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Martial law was declared in the city and people were ordered to stay inside their homes and only leave if it was absolutely essential. Anyone wandering outside were subject to mandatory search and interrogations and even arrests if the...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_253 [Updated]

A/N: EDITS—

1) Established background that Takuma had no authority to sacrifice multiple dozens Hot Water citizens so that he could kill the shinobi.

2) Expanding Takuma's emotional response/aftermath to what he just did.

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The old barber was cleaning and sanitising his tools when he heard the chime above his door ring. He turned to see a young teenager wearing a brown hooded coat enter his barbersho...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_252

The Kumi family estate had changed a lot in the past few days. It contained a serene environment of tranquility and peace—guests were rare and only those who were trusted were allowed in. But since the past few days, that tranquility had been broken by the outsiders who had all but taken over the estate. There was a discomfort among those who worked at the estate, having to be in the presence of shinobi who were supposed to be enemies of the city.

All of the changes had ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_251

When Takuma opened his eyes, his body felt more uncomfortable than anything. He groaned loudly as he forced himself to sit up in the dirty cot that had served as his bed and his muscles screamed. It was a bizarre experience because not only had he woken up without a sore muscle after continuous days of intense training—but his body was that of a young teenager! He wasn't supposed to get sores and aches when he hadn't done anything physically taxing.

"Fuck me."

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_250

Sneaking out of the Chinatsu house was easy enough. They snuck out from the backside from a balcony. They stuck to the walls with their backs using chakra adhesion and shifted until they were out of sight of the two people in the back, keeping a look out. It was their second day on duty, and one would expect them to be alert, but it was late at night and they weren't used to the night schedule, making it the perfect time to sneak out.

The moment they cleared out of the gua...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_249

Hoshiguro's family ate dinner together every day. Him, his wife, their son, their daughter-in-law, and the twin grandchildren. It was a family tradition and no one was allowed to skip the meal under any circumstance with every few exceptions.

Just like every day, the family was together at a table. Gyon's wife was helping their twins eat who seemed to want nothing more to run around. Hoshiguro's wife ate as she watched the twins with an imperceptible smile. Hoshiguro and G...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_248

A Hidden Frost genin entered the backyard of a house and stopped when he saw Ebi standing in the middle of the backyard. He couldn't put the feeling in words, but he stood silent and still even though he had an urgent report to give to the jonin.

Ebi was in the basic stance with his arms up as guards. The backyard had a healthy growth of grass in need of trimming, but the spot where Ebi stood was bare with the dirt beneath visible. Outside the circle, originating from the ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_247

Late in the morning, a knock on the door sent everyone in the Chinatsu house on the highest alert. Everyone looked at each other, making sure everybody was ready. Anko raised her hand and gestured for the team along with Chinatsu and Gaku to take positions before she headed toward the door.

She engaged the chain latch before opening the door, and immediately a foot jammed in the gap to stop the door from closing. Anko put on a scared expression when she saw a shinobi in th...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_246

It had been seventeen hours since the team had abducted the two Hidden Frost shinobi. Takuma sat in an empty room of an unoccupied Kumi property where they had kept the two shinobi captive. He was alone having a sad pre-packaged lunch in an empty room. Anko had returned to Chinatsu's house to prepare for when the Hidden Frost shinobi came looking for the their two missing comrades.

He would be alone with the two prisoners for the next few days with no contact with the team...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_245

The Hidden Frost army had taken over one of the tourist districts of Yu, forcing the big inns and hotels to accommodate the shinobi as guests for months on end. Most places had shut down and the staff had abandoned their buildings, but some places housing the chunin and jonin were still operating while being paid by the some wealthy people who had turncoat and were supporting the shinobi.

Yuriko was part of the housekeeping staff at one of those hotels.

It was...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_244

"Make sure to enjoy yourself, okay?" Aranai said to his Ryoya, his genin subordinate. He had been lucky to a get a team of three genin, who were in for helping him sell drugs—there were people with stick up their asses who didn't appreciate the spirit of entrepreneurship and having fun.

"Yes, sir," said Ryoya. He looked slightly uncomfortable due to the timing and the people who had gotten sick from their drugs, but Aranai could see that he was excited about getting laid...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_243

Aranai was a Hidden Frost chunin who had made a great situation for himself in the city he was occupying as part of a war against the Land of Hot Waters. He was making money hand over fist by not only selling drugs to his peers, he had also found a way to export drugs to his home country along with all the food and produce they were diverting to the Land of Frost—he had made more money in the past couple months than he had made in the last several years as a shinobi.

Mon...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_242

Yamada stood at the street corner looking at the drug house in the middle of the street. The intimidating guards he had gotten used to once again looked frightening. He clutched the old, scuffed shoulder bag close to his body; it carried the drugs he was supposed to insert into the delivery going out to the Hidden Frost shinobi.

With his kidnappers at home, he wasn't able to sleep as he protected his family from danger. It had been the worst time of his life—comforting h...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_241

In the Goharu family's drug house, a group of workers busied themselves packaging the crushed brown crystal powder of heroin into bricks and small packets with an umbrella insignia on all pacakging. They wore leather gloves and had long scarfs wrapped around their nose and mouth to reduce their contact with the drug.

The drug house had recently doubled the number of workers from the increase in the business the Goharu family had recieved from the Hidden Frost shinobi army ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_240

Without fail every single person in the estate gathered around a wide courtyard to watch the bout between the outsider— who everyone was surprised to see was a kid—and Gyon, the head's son and a Kumi lieutenant. Most didn't know the reason behind the fight, which caused rumours to pop up among the Kumi member and the staff. The biggest rumour was that the outsider was Hoshiguro's illegitimate child who had come to challenge Gyon, the legitimate son, for the position of the next Kum...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_239

The home residence of the Kumi family's head was a lavish walled estate with multiple buildings; rock, sand, and grass gardens; a clear pond with fish; several majestic fruit-bearing trees, and meticulously maintained courtyards. A peaceful serenity permeated throughout the estate which added to the estate's charm.

But the two dozen men dressed in tacky tracksuits lounging around really broke the ambiance.

"It's a beautiful place," Gaku said to woman escorting...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_238

Takuma paced back and forth in the base with the poster in his clenched fist. He always knew that he had put his face at risk when he had shown it to Motohiro's group, but he didn't think it would be leaked so soon. However, more importantly, he didn't think his identity would be leaked at all.

"This isn't Motohiro's group," said Gaku before lighting up a cigarette.

Everyone had settled down in the couches and chairs. There was a visible tension on ev...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_237

Unilke the Fire Daimyo, the Hokage was a military leader. He didn't need others to handle the military for him. However, one person couldn't manage the tens and thousands of shinobi and the hundred thousand civilians around them who worked as the support structure.

A hierarchy was established to manage the Hidden Leaf shinobi organization. In that hierarchical structure, Jonin Commanders were one step below the Hokage. They were the leaders and representatives of regular s...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_236

Anko observed a storage warehouse through a pair of binoculars. The sun had long set, and she was standing in open a couple hundred meters away from the warehouse. She saw two pairs of guards patrolling the perimeter of the warehouse; they seemed to be civilians, essentially making them non-threats. According to the intel provided by Motohiro's resistance group, the warehouse didn't have any shinobi guards, which made the job so much easier.

She was more than surpr...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_235

The sun climbed up the sky, bringing about the early morning. In the factory base located in the industrial district, Takuma opened his eyes at dot six in the morning. His comfy camping roll sat a few minutes away but Takuma was separated from the cold, hard concrete floor with a thin bed sheet.

He stayed there on the floor for a minute before getting up and putting on some pants along with his weighted-gear—a weighted-vest, and a pair of ankle and wrist weights ...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_234

Takuma released the Hidden Mist Jutsu and ran into the nearest alley with Orange-Mask on his tail. Takuma looked behind and dodged the shuriken launched for his back. He ran around the blocks, carefully routing away from the leader.

Orange-Mask stuck to him like a dog to the bone, but Takuma noticed there was more distance between them than before. He deduced that Orange-Mask's short-term anaerobic endurance was on the decline. Takuma didn't have that prob...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_233

His initial plan was to kill Orange-Mask and then shake off the leader before escaping—but now, as he stood on the rooftop after blasting the leader off the roof and Orange-Mask was nowhere to be seen, Takuma wondered if he had found a window to escape. He decided it was and that the window was narrow.

He could tell that his two pursuers were trying to keep the whole ordeal quiet for some reason, and the leader was especially holding back—he deduced they were t...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_232

As Takuma jumped from the apartment corridor, he considered his situation. Orange-Mask was waiting for him on the ground, and the leader was only a few seconds away inside the apartment. He was continuously being cornered and desperately needed something to change if he wanted to escape.

There was no use mindlessly running around hoping something would change. He had to make the changes himself.

He listed out the problems plaguing him.

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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_231

‘Take a deep breath,’ Takuma said to himself.

He groaned as another hot stab assaulted his head. There wasn’t a worse time to get a headache when he was surrounded by unknown hostiles. A part of him wanted to find out about the first person who had triggered his headache, but he could see a trap when he saw one.

The unknown shinobi had set the police station ablaze in hopes of drawing out the culprit behind the Bentetsu police station bo...

Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: CH_230

“This is very good,” Takuma said, giving a nod to Gaku.

“Really?” said Anko, surprised by his reaction. She was sure, given their relationship, he would rip into Gaku.

Takuma, Anko, and Gaku were alone in the factory base. She had wanted to run Gaku’s plan by Takuma because she doubted her ability to look at the situation impartially and because Chinatsu was the cornerstone of their cover identity; putting her close to an enemy shinobi wo...